Chapter 660: Lessons Learned
Li Chengqian brought his own team and of course his own vault, so he decided to do a big move. Without utensils, he built iron furnaces on site and bought materials; without anyone, he would recruit every household; without food, he would go to the county government to purchase it; and he also discussed land acquisition with the landlords and asked them to go to the county government office, and Li Chengqian would tell them personally.
It is completely different from handling work in the court, but there are many similarities.
The biggest difference is that in the court, the east wall can be demolished and the west wall can be repaired. But it is very difficult at the grassroots level, because there is no wall for him to demolish it. Everyone will not give up any land and will not throw away any hair. No one will see a rabbit or show off the eagle. Don’t want them to see the long-term. If they say that they will be fine in the future, they will endure something that will endure hardship first, and they will not agree to anything.
Moreover, comparisons are the wind, and there are no worries but unevenness. There are countless quarrels about small profits. Villages and villages, homes and people, and everyone seems to eat gunpowder, and they will explode with a slight touch.
There is no gentleness, only stingy.
Li Chengqian had a headache, but this was the grassroots level, because he was surrounded by monkeys who were all till the morning and evening. What he was pursuing was not a big blueprint, but a pledge to make peace.
"There is no trust at all." Li Chengqian sighed. He keenly noticed the problem, that is, the people do not trust each other, and the officials and the people do not trust each other. Naturally, they will not trust themselves, the prince who is not the prince.
Li Chengqian had to read Yunyao's handbook. Yunyao encountered these problems when developing Zhucheng, so she gave a detailed solution.
Arguing is normal, but as ordinary people, it is normal to have a day, four or three. It is not that they have no vision, but that they cannot have vision, and if they have vision, they may starve to death.
So we need to build a trust relationship and let them know that even if their family has no food to eat, someone will take care of them.
"When dealing with problems, you cannot just please the people for your own reputation. You must adhere to principles. If you want to unite the people by yourself, you are not promising their interests, but taking the lead in doing the right things. Therefore, the easiest way to build trust is to eat and live with the workers." Li Chengqian read the contents of the small manual and said how his sister learned so much knowledge? It was as if she had experienced it personally.
She has indeed experienced it and suffered a lot of losses. These are the experiences and lessons learned from Yunyao's construction of the city. She also did it like buying the people, but in the end she suffered a big loss.
At first, Yunyao thought that as long as you gave money, the people would naturally follow her. But later she found that this was not the case. She just tried to please the people, and the people gradually began to close their self-protection and were unwilling to fulfill their obligations. Yunyao was superior, and the people could not rely on Yunyao, they rely on the money in their hands. So it is natural that there is no problem to give them money, but once they encounter a development bottleneck and have no money to give, the people will hurry up and not consider the long-term. Because they don’t trust Yunyao, they think that Yunyao can ascend at any time and will not care about them at all, but when Yunyao ascends, they have to live, so naturally they can’t pay to break through any bottleneck.
Yunyao realized that he thought it was enough to give money, but in the end the people believed in money, not the person who gave money. This was the first time Yunyao encountered this situation. There was indeed a bottleneck in development at that time. Yunyao wanted to mobilize everyone to work together, but no one responded at all. Later, Yunyao chatted with them and found out that the reason why they did not respond was that Yunyao wanted to cheat their money, Yunyao's method of recycling money, and Yunyao made a clever name.
Without money, they can't survive, so they can't believe in Yunyao.
This made Yunyao realize that buying people can indeed succeed within a certain period of time, but once they encounter bottlenecks, they can't get over it. That's why she deeply realized that she had left the people of Zhucheng, so she spent several years back to the people and re-established everyone's trust relationship, so that they knew that even if they had no money, everyone could still work together.
In fact, the reason is very simple. The alliance of interests is naturally the most solid when there is a benefit. When there is no interest, there will be no trust relationship. The covenant will naturally be resolved, and conflicts will break out and there will be no unity at all. Therefore, Yunyao once again went deep into the masses, built a moral alliance, established a trust relationship, and made everyone believe in her again, and then gathered people's hearts together again. Let them know that even if Yunyao is a god in the heavenly court, she still cares about everyone's future, and will still share the joys and sorrows with them and will not leave them alone and run away.
With this trust, everyone generously helped Yunyao overcome Zhucheng's development bottleneck.
Simply put, interest alliances are effective when there are benefits, so bribing the people can only last for a short time. Even Yunyao will encounter bottlenecks of insufficient interests, let alone the Tang Dynasty. Moreover, interests are not out of thin air. In backward areas where there is nothing, interest alliances are simply unreliable. So she taught Li Chengqian to endure hardships with everyone at once, and he will eat whatever they eat. In short, it is to gain everyone's trust so that everyone can contribute their own strength.
Li Chengqian took the lead in repairing water conservancy and sorting out transportation, and had to lead by example. Only in this way can everyone believe that Li Chengqian really wants to do practical things for them, rather than trying to trick them into paying money and efforts.
In fact, it is also possible to force the people to collect power. After all, corvee labor is legal. But relying on corvee labor cannot mobilize enthusiasm. Previously, Emperor Yang of Sui recruited various corve labor, fought and dug canals, so the people of the Tang Dynasty had psychological shadows on corvee labor. If Li Chengqian really used corvee labor, he would definitely be criticized for being very happy and greedy for merit and rash. Even if he did something practical, he would be scolded to death. Just like Emperor Yang of Sui, everyone knew the use of the Grand Canal, but he was scolded very badly because he did not mobilize the subjective initiative of the corvee labor masses. Corve labor was all passively, and were not afraid of Emperor Yang of Sui scolding whom?
But if Emperor Yang of Sui personally worked on the construction site, even if he was acting, the corvee workers would definitely be full of energy.
Therefore, the people must be convinced that Li Chengqian can exert his strength and gain reputation while doing practical things. So his practice is to roll up his trousers and work with everyone, work for him for three years and work for him in full swing.
Not only did he work, but he also lived and lived together. After persisting, Li Chengqian also deeply understood the hardships of workers. Because he brought funds, the local area had better blacksmith skills, and began to promote crooked plows and raise more cattle and horses. At the same time, many businessmen also came to invest in order to please Li Chengqian, and this small county suddenly became lively.
This is the effect that Yunyao needs, allowing funds to flow to the local area. Of course, if the prince leaves, how to keep the funds, it depends entirely on the local people. This is also written in the booklet to prevent Li Chengqian from leaving and the funds will flow away immediately. Yunyao also gave the emperor a lot of solutions, hoping to maintain the sustainable development of the county as much as possible. Although it is difficult, no matter how difficult it is, you have to work hard, otherwise the problem of the transformation of the Tang and Song dynasties will arise. At that time, "Water Margin" will become a story of the Tang Dynasty.
Chapter completed!